We explore the impact of wage offers on job applications, testing implications of the directed search model and trying to distinguish it from random search. We use a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board, with real jobs for which we randomly varied the wage offers across three...

Since China's implementation of the One-Child Policy in the late 1970s, more than 150 million only children have been born and are often stigmatized with negative stereotypes that are not applied to children with siblings. In this study, we investigate the impact of trustor and trustee...

Using data from a nationwide donation program and a follow-up survey, this paper examines how social distance induced by the geographic distance between donors and recipients and the capability to give measured by donor income affect the amount of charitable giving conditional on giving...

We explore workers' valuation of job flexibility, using a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board. Our experimental job ads differ randomly in offering jobs that are flexible regarding when one works (time flexibility) or where one works (place flexibility), and offering different...

We explore workers' valuation of job flexibility, using a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board, as well as survey and observational data for the same job seekers. Our experimental job ads differ randomly in offering jobs that are flexible regarding when one works (time flexibility)...

Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as important means to reduce free riding and to promote cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as well as the importance of income distribution in team cooperation. In a...